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What was the most unrealistic thing that happened in the Rocky movies?

posted 3 years ago by TMC-4 (19416)
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The staggering number of headshots that all of the fighters take - I have seen club fights which were essentially brawls and none of them were ever anything close to a single Rocky film. If they had been, then one fighter or both would have been on the way to the hospital. Or the morgue.

No fighters changed their strategy when they fought Rocky - Even if Clubber Lang (Mr. T) and Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) thought that they could knock Rocky out, they would have been hesitant to try if they had bothered to watch his fights with Apollo Creed. Nope: Both fighters come into the ring and attempt to slug it out with Rocky, when it’s clear that it’s damn near impossible to knock him out. No. Strategy. Change. Whatsoever.

Rocky surprising naivety about the boxing world - While there are always stories of fighters being tricked out of their earnings, the ugly reality is that the majority know that’s what is happening and they simply want to get as much as they can while they can do so. Rocky is constantly surprised about the darker side of the business which given his age, his former experience as a collector for a loanshark, and his demonstrated experience in the ring, makes no sense whatsoever.

Rocky’s oddly monogamous marriage - Are there boxers who honor their vows? Certainly. Are they in the majority? Nope. The film franchise essentially makes Rocky a saint when that’s not the reality when it comes to men who engage in combat sports. Since making Rocky a hedonist would have actually made several of the films more complex and enjoyable, it’s a wonder that Stallone (who had creative control) didn’t do just that.

Rocky’s amazing mental evolution/devolution/evolution - In Rocky, the character seemed to be in the early stages of pugilistic dementia. By Rocky II that seems to be “clearing up’. By Rocky IV, his diction has improved, his mentally acuity is still sharp despite two or three extremely brutal fights, and he sounds better than he did years earlier. Then (uh oh) by Rocky V, his acuity starts to slip again, although not enough for him to fear getting into a street fight with a rather unstable Tommy Gunn (the late Tommy Morrison). By the time of the Creed films, Rocky is “back” yet again, and able to make complex decisions and rationalizations despite years of savage fights. Yeah….no.

[–] grhqofb5 (327) 3 years ago

The most unrealistic thing that happened in the Rocky movies was that Paulie did not try to have sex with his robot

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71750) 3 years ago

LOL😄
Are we sure of this?

[–] grhqofb5 (327) 3 years ago

Either that or Rocky when climbed that 18,000 foot mountain in Siberia in 7 minutes in Rocky IV.

[–] trevorh321 (5495) 3 years ago

I can't blame Clubber Lang for having no strategy beyond just trying to knock Rocky out. He did that in the first fight. So it only makes sense he would try it in the second. So he can be knocked out.

[–] janelsenor (2042) 3 years ago

Rocky’s private rematch with Apollo took five years.

[–] Threadkiller (2952) 3 years ago

Probably Rocky going the distance and KO'ing a 6'5 roided up Russian who would have been a few weight classes above him & who also managed to effortlessly beat Appolo to death in less than 2 rounds.

[–] Rolltide (964) 3 years ago

Also more than a decade younger.

[–] ThrillerTalk (1118) 2 years ago

You're forgetting that

1. Apollo was past his prime
2. Apollo was just having a good time because as his manager said, "It was supposed to be a Exhibition"
3. Then Drago just went nuts on him out of no where in the middle of the fight by pounding over and over at him even after the bell sounded.

That is how Apollo died. That boxing match didn't go the way any boxing match typically would go, it was turned into a street fight just to establish Drago as the Drago character as the villian of the story.

I had no problem with Rocky finding a way to win because despite his size his character was always built as the guy who despite differences between him and his opponents physically, he always had that heart of a champion that would keep him going no matter what when he was fully into it. Apollo's death only added fuel to that too so it just worked.

[–] liscarkat (16530) 3 years ago

Agree with most of your points except one.

As you say, "Are there boxers who honor their vows? Certainly."

Rocky just happens to be one of those. It's credible.

[–] millsey72 (9557) 3 years ago

The most unrealistic part of the Rocky saga occurred in Rocky 2, which takes place directly after the events of the original in 1976. Rocky purchased a 1979 Trans Am in 1976 during Rocky 2. Thats impossible and the biggest plot hole in the series

[–] TMC-4 (19416) 3 years ago

https://www.imcdb.org/m79817.html

[–] SandyR (7347) 3 years ago

An Italian guy beat up a black guy.

[–] chilidoggg (13053) 3 years ago

and this moolie's gonna pay for it!

[–] SandyR (7347) 3 years ago

Exactly.

[–] ATG6 (3000) 3 years ago

Rocky Marciano, 49-0.

[–] MaximRecoil (4058) 2 years ago

The guy you quoted has no idea what he's talking about:

"Nope: Both fighters come into the ring and attempt to slug it out with Rocky, when it’s clear that it’s damn near impossible to knock him out."

Except, Clubber Lang did exactly that, in the second round no less.

"Rocky is constantly surprised about the darker side of the business "

Say what? The only Rocky movie that deals with "the darker side of the business" is part V, and Rocky is never surprised about it, let alone "constantly." He's the one who is trying to warn/protect Tommy Gunn from "the darker side of the business."

"Rocky’s oddly monogamous marriage"

That whole paragraph is absurd. What statistics does he have regarding boxers and monogamy? Even if he had some actual evidence to support his assertions he negated his own argument when he wrote, "Are there boxers who honor their vows? Certainly."

He doesn't get the last paragraph right either. In Rocky II Rocky acted the same as he did in the first movie. It was Rocky III in which he was suddenly a lot more articulate. In IV he acted the same as he did in III, and in V, Stallone tried to play Rocky the way he did in the '70s, but he apparently forgot how and it came across as a parody of Rocky like you might see on SNL. In the final Rocky movie he acted more or less like he did in III and IV.